Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-06

will extend the upper end of it's line to the Portland ferry. The South Main street ex- tension is progressing, rails naVlng peen lalu in Middletown from the foot of Church street to the Methodist church and thence to the entrance of South Main street.
 THE SOLDIERS HOME.
 The Soldiers Hospital board held meet ing at the Capitol Thursday to con sloer mat,
 ters of importance relating to the welfare or
 the Home. It was voted that senator R J.
 Walsh should complete the perfection ot the
 title to the land recently acquired at Noroton
 by the State. The board also voted to pro- vide for abundant supply ot pure water by sinking an artesian well, and to improve the sanitary condition of the Home by build ing suitable sewer.
 OFF FOR EUROPE.
 Major D. NJ. Read and wife, of Bridgeport, departed yesterday afternoon for New York and will sail for Europe this morning by the steamer Umbria. They will be accompanied | by Mrs. Grace Buckingham of Bridgeport, l who has just received word that her daugh- l ter, Mrs. Charles P. Coe, who went away 1 several weeks since, is lying seriously i'll in l London. They will find awaiting them one | of the most beautiful floral tokens ever made l up in the city of Bridgeport. It is basket l and the height to the top of the handle is nearly three feet, and is tine gift of the
 majors employees.
 | OLD DEEDS RECORDED.
 There was quite resurrection ot old deeds last month. Two old conveyances to William l M. Wheeler one from Major John Snlveley
 in 1765, and 8 second from another party in
 1773 of about one hundred and seventy-hye
 acres of land in Milton were placed on record.
 The oldest, however, is deed of about
 twenty-five acres of land in Morris from the l guardian of Semantha Blackman to David
 Benton, dated September 24, 1757. At that time Morris formed part of Litchfeld and
 the deed was properly recorded here; never theless no one looking up the title would
 think of examining the Litehfeld records o1 ) 1887 for a conveyance of land in Norris
 Litchfeld Enquirer.
 FAMILY REUNIONS.
 A circular from Woodbury issued by the I Rev. H. Q. Judd, T. E. Judd and M. J. Judd . as committee reads, 'sLocal~ gatherings o. , the Judd family are occurring here and ther'
 from year to year. A general gathering O | all the descendants of Thomas Judd, ST., is
 exceedingly desirable. Such gathering vii , be held at High Rock Grove, on the Nauga tuck railroad, August 16 You are cordial. . invited to attend and requested to invite al
 members of the Judd family thereto. Brinl lunch baskets; or, if you prefer, dinner cal be obtained on the ground. Be sure ant bring the children" The annual reunion o , the Palmers at Stonington has been post , poned to next year.
 : WHAT THE TEMPERANCE WORKERS ARE DOING | The Voice about the middle or June starl l ed ''Voice fund" to help the Prohibition F workers in Texas. By July IS the sum o r S1, ,122 57 had been raised. Of this amour | $253 was sent from Connecticut. The fol r lowing is list of the Connecticut subscrib 2 CTS: William H. Rogers, New Haven, $5; Wi l liam Wood, Bloomfield, $2; Joel " t Skelton, Morris, $1; James H. Lindt f ley, Northford, $1; Virgil D. Norton, Dee 3 River, $1; "A whisper from Connecticut, : s200; FIT. Smith, Simsbury, $3; G.P.CopI 3 Groton, $2; George P. Rogers, New London ]; S1O; Boomer Montville, $2; Nathan hfe1 @ Till, Waterbury, $5; E. E. A. Smith, Sout y | Manchester, $2; John E. Hunter, MerideI :; SIP; Rev. G. H. Smith, Win dsor, $5. AN OLD TRICYCLE..
 Mir. L. w. Boynton, of Hartford, has : Autograph, made in 1860, which represent
 among other things, tricycle. of his inver ton which was built short time beeore . has wheels like carriage wheels, the sma Y wheel in the rear, and chain and gear col U nection for driving. Another thing show : on the sheet is what was called regatta ca 2 riage. It was made by uniting several tricy = = cles, removing the rear wheel of all but u 2 last. The motion was given by workir - levers with the arms, somewhat as in rowin . Several of these were built and were awai - ing shipment in a building which VI y burned. They were all destroyed by fir 2 Several hundred small tricycles, built sma 'o for the use of children, on the plan used ] I5 the regatta carriage, were sold.